Sunday, June 19, 2011

Impoverished women in India used as guinea pigs by pharma company...


Exactly a decade after farmers in Palnadu region sold their kidneys to clear their mounting debts, poverty-stricken women from the backward Palnadu region have fallen prey to clinical trials by a Hyderabad-based pharma company.

The clinical tests on human beings, reportedly without the requisite permission of the state government, came to light on Thursday when some of the victims fell seriously ill in Piduguralla town. Many of those who returned from the lab after the tests developed acute joint pains, swelling in arms and throat infections. Acting swiftly, district collector V N Vishnu directed district medical and health officer Gopi Naik to rush to Piduguralla and probe the incident.

 "Though the pharma company promised to pay us huge amounts before conducting the tests, they paid me only 9,000," rued Shaik Bibi, who underwent the tests along with several other women in the lab in Miyapur, Hyderabad. The firm, breaking all rules, did not provide any information to the women on the nature of tests conducted on them. More...

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